Unexpected token

[patrickinminneapolis]

I added this code to my React project.

import { pipeline } from "@xenova/transformers";

async function sentimentAnalysis() {
  // Allocate a pipeline for sentiment-analysis
  let pipe = await pipeline("sentiment-analysis");
  let out = await pipe("I love transformers!");
  console.log(out);
}

sentimentAnalysis();

I am surprised the docs don't tell me to download a model, so I think this code will auto-download it... anyway I get this issue...
./node_modules/@xenova/transformers/src/env.js 38:84
Module parse failed: Unexpected token (38:84)
File was processed with these loaders:

• ./node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js
  You may need an additional loader to handle the result of these loaders.
  |
  | var RUNNING_LOCALLY = FS_AVAILABLE && PATH_AVAILABLE;

var __dirname = RUNNING_LOCALLY ? path.dirname(path.dirname(url.fileURLToPath(import.meta.url))) : './';
|
| // Only used for environments with access to file system

Seems like I need access to the filesystem... but that can't be right because this runs in the browser ... ?

[xenova]

Seems like I need access to the filesystem... but that can't be right because this runs in the browser ... ?

This is just a check to see if you're running in development mode (which is useful for me) - but this won't affect you.

Module parse failed: Unexpected token (38:84)

Regarding this error, could you note what version of node and npm you are using? Also, I am aware of people that use create-react-app experiencing issues with newer JS libraries. If you are using CRA, I would advise you migrate to a better build tool like Vite (see previous issues for more information on this).

[patrickinminneapolis]

node v16.17.0 , npm 8.15.0 .... yes I am using CRA, I think, I'm extending another project and I assume it was built with create-react-app, but I don't have react-scripts in my package.json, so idk.

[xenova]

node v16.17.0
yes I am using CRA

I would advise that you update to node >= 18.x (v16 is reaching EOL soon) and use Vite instead of CRA. I don't think I will be adding support for these older versions.

[patrickinminneapolis]

It works in Vite with node 18 and npm 8.... now I just have to port my project over to it i guess